Your Heart is Ageless

Though your body ages, your heart secretly remains ageless. As my body is aging, my heart is proving to be beyond age. I recently came across ?Wisdom Trove? online. The site offered twelve ways to stay young at heart. Powerful quotes accompanied each way:

1. Keep learning. Don?t stagnate: Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity. Harvey Ullman. The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you?re learning you?re not old. Rosalyn S. Yalow.

2. Remain cheerful, enthusiastic, loving, hopeful and optimistic: To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent… that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka.

3. Keep your sense of fun and playfulness: You don?t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard. It?s never too late to have a happy childhood. Bruce Williamson.

4. Don?t stop dreaming and don?t succumb to regrets: You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. S. Lewis. It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. Robert Brault.

5. Remain creative: No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you?re keeping the child inside alive. John Cassavetes.

6. Keep active and useful: If you want to stay youthful, stay useful. Harvey Mackay. You don?t stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things. Rosamunde Pilcher.

7. Remain relaxed, calm and stress free: If you ask what the single most important key to longevity is, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. George Burns. Those who are of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. Plato.

8. Remain true to your ideals: Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Samuel Ullman.

9. Keep love alive: Those who love deeply never grown old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Arthur Wing Pinero.

10. Remain open to new ideas and experiences: If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy. The opposite of old is not young. The opposite of old is new. And as long as we continue to experience the new, we will gloriously inhabit all of the ages that we are. Andrea J. Lee.

11. Stay close to nature: A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. Lydia Maria Child.

12. Raise your state of consciousness: Whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. King Solomon… described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are. Marianne Williamson.